--Surrogacy has emerged a widespread trade in developing countries like India, where the couples come looking for a third party women, who would carry their child until birth.
--In India, future projections of this practice range from opportunity to exploitation, i.e. from rural women in India uplifted out of poverty to a futuristic nightmare of developing country baby farms.
--Reason for popularity is, that this serves as a way out of their miserable conditions. It also gives a hope to the sterile couples who cannot have a baby, to experience parenthood.
--The negative aspects of this practice include:
1. The surrogates are mostly exploited to an extreme level, by repeated impregnation without having a minimum interval of an year between successive impregnations.
2. India has emerged as a market of surrogates, which degrades these women in the eye of the world, due to their lack of opportunities and poverty.
3. Numerous children still live in orphanages, who are denied the love and affection needed by them. They can be adopted by sterile couples instead of opting for surrogacy.
--After initially banning surrogacy in 2012, the govt introduced Assisted Reproductive Technologies Act in 2013, which proposes strict guidelines for the foreign couple, as well as securing the well being of the surrogates.
--But the efficacy of such a practice is low, as the prospective surrogates can be taken to some other country, with lesser stringent rules.
--The solution can only be attained when we give an alternate avenue of financial security to such women involved in this practice, so as to permanently pull them out of this abyss. This includes gender sensitive schemes in Make in India program and promoting Beti Bechao Beti Padhao like schemes, which are capable to adequately empower women.
--In India, future projections of this practice range from opportunity to exploitation, i.e. from rural women in India uplifted out of poverty to a futuristic nightmare of developing country baby farms.
--Reason for popularity is, that this serves as a way out of their miserable conditions. It also gives a hope to the sterile couples who cannot have a baby, to experience parenthood.
--The negative aspects of this practice include:
1. The surrogates are mostly exploited to an extreme level, by repeated impregnation without having a minimum interval of an year between successive impregnations.
2. India has emerged as a market of surrogates, which degrades these women in the eye of the world, due to their lack of opportunities and poverty.
3. Numerous children still live in orphanages, who are denied the love and affection needed by them. They can be adopted by sterile couples instead of opting for surrogacy.
--After initially banning surrogacy in 2012, the govt introduced Assisted Reproductive Technologies Act in 2013, which proposes strict guidelines for the foreign couple, as well as securing the well being of the surrogates.
--But the efficacy of such a practice is low, as the prospective surrogates can be taken to some other country, with lesser stringent rules.
--The solution can only be attained when we give an alternate avenue of financial security to such women involved in this practice, so as to permanently pull them out of this abyss. This includes gender sensitive schemes in Make in India program and promoting Beti Bechao Beti Padhao like schemes, which are capable to adequately empower women.